Meaning

5 senses
  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

    Her feet were sore from walking so far.

    wund, weh, schlimm

    больно́йbolʹnój, боле́зненныйboléznennyj

    бо́ліснийbólisnyj

    causing misery or pain or distress

  2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

    empfindlich

    чувстви́тельныйčuvstvítelʹnyj

  3. Dire; distressing.

    The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.

    verzweifelt, händeringend

    отча́янныйotčájannyj

  4. (informal)Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

    Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

  5. (obsolete)Criminal; wrong; evil.

Examples

249 sentences
  1. I don't have a sore throat.

    У мене не болить горло.

    ruУ меня не болит горло.

    deIch habe keine Halsschmerzen.

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  2. I still have a sore throat.

    У мене досі запалене горло.

    deIch habe immer noch Halsschmerzen.

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  3. I had sore legs the next day.

    Наступного дня в мене боліли ноги.

    ruНа следующий день у меня болели ноги.

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  4. I have a sore throat and a fever.

    У мене болить горло і підвищена температура.

    ruУ меня температура, и горло болит.

    deIch habe Halsschmerzen und Fieber.

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  5. When I got up today, my throat felt a little sore.

    Коли я прокинувся сьогодні, в мене трохи боліло горло.

    ruКогда я проснулся сегодня, у меня немного болело горло.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
causing pain:
Русский
By meaning 3
causing pain:
sensitive; tender:
dire, distressing:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
causing pain:
sensitive; tender:
dire, distressing:

Origin

From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, gri

From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”).

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Forms

sorer, sorest
Comparativesorer Lesson
Superlativesorest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

101 synonyms

Word family

14 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • a sore throat
  • sore throat
  • have a sore
  • sore throat and
  • a little sore
  • little sore
  • still sore

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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